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October 1711

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Articles [..] ted before her Maties Justices of Goale Do [..]
Said County of Middlx Sitting att Justices Hall in the old Bayly Le [..]
Sophia Ballard< no role > Elizabeth Halsall< no role > and others against Henry Mo< no role > [..]
Master or Keeper of the house of Correccon in the Said County for Suffering [..]
escape the Prisoners convicted and others comitted to the custody by her Maties
Justices of Goal Detery or Justices of the peace of the Said County & for not Pmitting
& Suffering the said Prisoners att their wills & Pleasures to Send for and have any
beer ale Victuals and other necessary food where & from whence they please
& otherwise cruelly & parbarously useing them whereby Sevall have perished there
through his default contrary to the forme of the Statutes in those cases made & pvided

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For that the Said Henry Moult < no role > pmitted one Mary Stent< no role > als Phillips< no role > a Convict and as Such
comitted to his custody, and Sevall fitters likewise comitted to his custody for Sevall misdemeanors to escape & goe at large

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For that the Said Henry Moult< no role > Suffered Sevall poor prisoners comitted to his custody by Sevall of her
Maties Justices of the peace for this County for Sevall misdemeanors to be Starved by hunger & cold for
Want of Sufficient dyett and Straw to lye upon, allowing them neither Fire nor Candle and by pmitting
one Jane Gregory< no role > &Wilson [..] the Said Henry Moults Servants cruelly to beat & refuse
them

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For that the Said Henry Moult< no role > hundred & obstructed the Said Elizabeth Halsall< no role > & Sevall others
from carrying provisions to the prisoners in the Said prison and hath not allowed the prisoners
So much as water to drink for Sevall months together

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For that the Said Henry Moult< no role > hath often cruelly beaten & abused the prisoners comitted to his
custody & hath pmitted the Said Jane Gregory< no role > to doe the like

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For that the Said prisoners in the Said Henry Moults< no role > custody for want of convenient dyett and
Subsistence have been forced to eat Turnepp Topps, pareings of Turnepps, Pease & Beane
Shells which they took of the Dunghill in the yard belonging to the Said prisons and to eat
vine and Cabbage Leaves

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For that Sevall prisoners in the Said Henry Moults< no role > custody (vizt) Mary Taylor< no role > Jane Boulton< no role > Joseph< no role >




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